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Challenges and opportunities of enhanced geothermal systems: A review

open access: yes工程科学学报, 2022
Exploiting geothermal resources, especially hot dry rock (HDR), is essential to reduce carbon emissions to build an acceptable energy structure. The enhanced geothermal system (EGS) for mining HDR has experienced more than 50 years since it was proposed ...
Fang-chao KANG   +4 more
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Phase-Field Modeling of Coupled Thermo-Hydromechanical Processes for Hydraulic Fracturing Analysis in Enhanced Geothermal Systems

open access: yesEnergies, 2023
Abundant geothermal energy can be harvested from deep, low-permeability rocks using an enhanced geothermal system (EGS) that relies on an artificially created permeable fracture network through cold water injection.
Vaya Putra, Kenji Furui
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Future Technology Mix—Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)—An Overview of Selected Projects as an Example for Future Investments in Poland

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Rising fuel prices, changes in energy markets, and concern for the environment make it necessary to develop new solutions and technologies. The development of new technologies brings with it the need to take risks associated with unpredictable ...
Anna Sowiżdżał   +2 more
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Research status and development trend of key technologies for enhanced geothermal systems

open access: yesNatural Gas Industry B, 2023
Enhanced geothermal system (EGS) is a primary method to develop geothermal resources stored in hot dry rock (HDR), but it faces several key problems, such as unreasonable hydraulic fracture networks at high reservoir temperature, unclear multi-scale and ...
Liang Gong   +6 more
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Influence Factors on EGS Geothermal Reservoir Extraction Performance

open access: yesGeofluids, 2022
The heat extraction performance of the enhanced geothermal system is simulated by using COMSOL software. The effects of six factors, such as the thermal conductivity of heat reservoir, matrix permeability, fracture width, injection temperature, injection
Haitao Wang, Lijuan Wang, Zude Cheng
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Numerical simulation of influence of reservoir characteristics on heating process of enhanced geothermal system of horizontal well multi fractures

open access: yes地质科技通报, 2022
The horizontal well multi-fracture development technology, which is well-developed in the oil and gas industry, can significantly improve the economics of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS).
Hengwei Liu   +4 more
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Utilization of Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) in Modelling and Simulation of a Horizontal Well-Doublet Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) with Sensitivity Analysis of Key Production Parameters

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Projects that feature unconventional geothermal systems are complex and come at great investment risk and high project cost. The purpose of this work is to present a method for modelling an enhanced geothermal system (EGS) that utilizes a horizontal well-
Damian Janiga   +2 more
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Effects of heat transfer fluid and boundary conditions on temperature field of enhanced geothermal system

open access: yesPetroleum, 2022
Enhanced geothermal system (EGS) is considered to be the most effective way to mine hot dry rock. A conceptual model of rock mass-fracture-rock mass was established to study the limitation of temperature, insulation and heat transfer on the temperature ...
Jie Zhang, Meng Zhao, Guiyang Wang
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Hydraulic stimulation strategies in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS): a review

open access: yesGeomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 2022
AbstractIn enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), the natural permeability of deep rocks is normally not high enough and needs to be increased. Permeability increase can be achieved through various stimulation methods, such as hydraulic, chemical, and thermal stimulation.
Jia, Yunzhong   +3 more
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Study on Libr/H2O absorption cooling system based on enhanced geothermal system for data center

open access: yesEnergy Reports, 2020
For solving the problems such as high energy consumption of cooling system of big DC and utilization of abandoned wells, this paper proposed Libr/H2O absorption cooling system based on enhanced geothermal system (EGS) using abandoned wells for DC, which ...
Bingbing Han   +4 more
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